Quotes of Disservice - somelinesforyou

“ The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales. ”

- Aesop

“ There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds — not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but — a hatred of all injury. ”

- George Eliot

“ The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race. ”

- Nellie McClung

“ An injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I've come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental. ”

- Pele

“ To offer to our tribe, as storytellers, narratives which are absent of a dark side is a terrible disservice. I'm just fighting for the right for a film to be stirring and brilliant and illuminating. ”

- Ben Kingsley

“ The invention of IQ does a great disservice to creativity in education. ”

- Joel Hildebrand

“ To simply stick your fingers in your ears and say, 'No way, I'm not listening,' is to do a disservice to the generations to follow. ”

- Conrad Bums

“ If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? ”

- Carl Edward Sagan

“ We would be doing the children of South Asia a great disservice if we allowed ourselves to believe that the need of children to belong to a loving, permanent family was washed away by the waves of the tsunami. ”

- Mary Landrieu

“ One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. ”

- Socrates

“ I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few refuges. But to just own land to do nothing with it I think is a disservice to the Constitution. ”

- Don Young

“ The invention of IQ did a great disservice to creativity in education. Individuality, personality, originality, are too precious to be meddled with by amateur psychiatrists whose patterns for a wholesome personality are inevitably their own. ”

- Joel Hildebrand

“ A rigorous doctrine of imputation is not only limiting but ends up doing a disservice to the nature of grace and justification. It makes the transactions of the gospel basically juridical. In the Roman view, justification and sanctification are a seamless fabric… ”

- Thomas Howard

“ The CIA's and the Defense Department's long denial of the possibility of chemical weapons exposure was a great disservice to thousands of Gulf War veterans whose tour of duty in the Persian Gulf has adversely affected their health. ”

- Terry Everett
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